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I’m a huge fan of Cummings and his idiosyncratic experiments with feeling and language. Susan Cheever’s new bio of E. E. Cummings looks wonderful, including as it does the intimacy of a personal connection through her father’s friendship with him. Here’s an excerpt. Cummings won me when I first started reading him in high school, as so many did, given the accessibility of his poetry. How could I not be won by a poet who could write: